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‘James H. Hyslop’

Ghosts Counting Oranges

Ghosts Counting Oranges In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get the ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him.

Letters That Wait for the Dead To Speak

Letters That Wait for the Dead To Speak In the 1880s a group of psychic researchers wrote letters that they optimistically believed would help to prove the reality of life beyond the grave. Did the letters prove life after death or did they end up in the Dead Letter Office?

Breathe Once for ‘Yes’: Guibal and Greville’s Mind-Reading Act

Breathe Once for ‘Yes’: Guibal and Greville’s Mind-Reading Act Arthur Guibal and Marie Greville use a breathing code to mystify audiences of their mind-reading act.